Example sentences of "first time since [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 2 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 3 | For the first time since they had left the house , he seemed rather less relaxed . |
| 4 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 5 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
| 6 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 7 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 8 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
| 9 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
| 10 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 11 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 12 | He looked as if he was going to protest , but his eyes caught her face , and for the first time since she had known him Nelson was one hundred per cent a grown-up . |
| 13 | Next morning , for the first time since she had started at G.W. , she arrived late , almost too terrified to step across the threshold . |
| 14 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 15 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 16 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 17 | For the first time since I had to leave home , this is a place that will leave a scar . |
| 18 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 19 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 20 | For the first time since he had met him , Blake felt compassion for the old Time Lord . |
| 21 | Allen spoke for the first time since he had joined them . |
| 22 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 23 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 24 | Mach looked up again , smiling for the first time since he had entered the room . |
| 25 | For the first time since he had entered the theatre he looked hard at Therese . |
| 26 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 27 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 28 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |
| 29 | For the first time since he had told her about Carol , Helen found that she could think about Adrian with something like calm . |
| 30 | Last night , for the first time since he had married Fei Yen , he had summoned a woman to his bed — one of the serving girls from the kitchens — purging himself of the need that had raged in his blood like a poison . |